Get to know the western spotted skunk ‘The stench kind of permeates everything’: What it takes to study a stinky, secretive skunk

Job Alert! Assistant Prof of Fish Ecology at @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Awesome PI and project!

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Great article about colleagues studying the impacts of the Palisades and Franklin fires on wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains!

Sidney Woodruff, an ecology Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis, wants to save the northwestern pond turtle — and other critters, too — from an invasive amphibian, Lithobates catesbeianus, or the American bullfrog. #HeardAroundTheWest

How do large mammals 🦌🐺 respond to human presence 🥾 and infrastructure 🏕️ in protected areas? With a fantastic team of collaborators across the US, we set out to answer this question—turns out, it's complicated! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In communities at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, bears and people often cross paths. Some say the Eaton fire has worsened the situation, driving bears whose habitat was charred into neighborhoods to seek food and water. @lilaseidman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

First postdoc paper published! Featuring carnivores, climate, and land use change www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Look at Sidney Woodruff being an awesome inspiration and mentor!

Forgot to tag the emoji things 🌍🌐🧪

Rocky Mountain Research Station— that’s Forest Service Research and Development. R&D. The White House wants to get rid of R&D. Particularly for those living where homes and wilder places intermingle — please continue to tell your Senators how Forest Service R&D benefits your homes & communities.

The huge amphibians "will literally just feed on anything that fits into their mouth" — including turtle hatchlings. Clearing thousands of frogs from ponds helped other species stage a comeback.

awesome conservation success story! Great research Sidney!

There are three new wolf packs roaming Northern California. It's wonderful news for conservationists who want to see the endangered canids thrive. But the revelation also arrives as ranchers are increasingly agitating for measures to control the animals. bit.ly/43DZxt3

I am so happy to share this new paper I co-wrote with colleagues at the USGS. It's a guide to predicting how nonmotorized recreation like hiking, skiing, mountain biking, etc. affects ungulates (hoofed mammals like deer, elk, moose, and pronghorn) to inform NEPA analyses. doi.org/10.3133/sir2...

Shameful behavior from UC Davis promoting results that have not passed peer review: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

Citizen science platforms are a good tool for researchers to use to gather large-scale data on wildlife species. But how accurate are they, and do they have observation bias? Read more 👇

We're hiring a part-time field tech in California! Hoping to find someone local to help us out! Check it out on the opportunities tab of my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com/opportunitie...

"Wolf recovery is all about people and very little about wolves."

California enters Phase 2 of gray wolf recovery: wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive...

Hi All, please share widely, we're looking for technicians to help with our research on mule deer response to fire in the Santa Monica Mountains! This is an awesome team, exciting study, and fantastic location :) jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Anticoagulant rodenticides are ubiquitous in some areas. Research in California reveals that nontarget carnivores like coyotes are ingesting these types of rat poison, likely from eating dead rodents.

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

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Excited to share our new study "Environmental health and societal wealth predict movement patterns of an urban carnivore"- out today in Ecology Letters! All about how social-ecological features influence coyote movement. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… [📸 Johanna Turner] 🧪🌎

Great piece by @antonsrkn.bsky.social delving into all the nuance surrounding how the L.A. fires might impact wildlife. Happy to have been part of it, check it out!

6/6 I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.

The wildlife profession has struggled with gender equity. Researchers wanted to see how this translated to representation in authors published in The Wildlife Society’s Journal of Wildlife Management. Read more 👇

Hi All! I am a PhD candidate @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social working with @justineasmith.bsky.social studying how humans impact species interactions. I look at the impacts of development, recreation, roadways, drought, and fire on mountain lions and deer in greater LA :) Please help me find starter packs!

I'm so excited to share that my first dissertation chapter on SF coyotes is out in the #OpenAccess journal Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. We DNA metabarcoded and genotyped hundreds of scats to explore dietary variation across the city 🧬💩 🧪 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...